DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS: 1 Corinthians 3:18-23, Psalm 24:1-6,
My Beloved, it would do us well to heed St. Paul’s
cautionary advise and not become admirers of tin pot gods. We set up human beings on pedestals and we
give them an image that is false and larger than life. We celebrate their sins as if they were
virtues and we even follow them and seek to emulate them. True wisdom is to know You, love You, obey
You and follow You. To contemplate day
and night Your perfect law of Love and to make it to the rule of our live.
Who will ascend the mountain of the Lord on the wings of an
eagle in prayer and there in the holy place gaze on the Face of God? The one who has clean hands and a pure
heart. My hands have not always been
clean nor my heart always pure. Thank
You my Love for the beautiful gift of the Sacrament of Reconciliation where can
start over with a clean slate no matter how often we fall or how low we sink.
Desiring what is vain and swearing to lies out of fear or
for personal gain is the sure road to sorrow, dissatisfaction and dismay. How often I have desired things that have made
me discontented with my present lot instead of appreciating the gifts I
have. How often I have pretended to be what
I most certainly am not in order to be accepted by those whom I admired. Keep my desires simple Lord, give me a
grateful heart and may I always be true to who I am – a child o f God –
daughter of the Father, bride of the Son and bound by cords of Love to God by His Most Holy Spirit.
My Love, may I live up to my potential more and more each
day through the grace that You make available to me.
My Beloved this is such a powerful passage. There is a crowd gathered around You
listening to Your teaching of the Word of God.
There are two boats on the water’s edge.
You chose to get into Peter’s boat, You asked him to leave the shore a
little and You continue to teach as You do to this day through the successors of
Peter and in the Boat of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. We have the unvarnished, untarnished Truth
being preached and taught to us boldly, clearly, unhesitatingly and without
compromise despite the pressure from the world.
Put out into the depths of the Holy Spirit and with courage
walk on the side of Truth. Trust God and
abandon yourself to Him. Work untiringly
and God will make that work fruitful for His glory.
Thank You Lord for our Church, for our Pope and for You abiding,
eternal Presence in it.
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